With Super Tuesday leaving the Democratic nomination for president undecided, the focus is now on future primary states – including Texas.

That’s where Maria Isabel comes in.

“You need to pack up your bags and come down to Houston and help us,” Isabel said to someone on the other end of a phone conversation.

She is often on her phone from her dining room setting up another local campaign office for Barack Obama.

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The national campaign team is on its way to Texas. There is work to be done.

“The people that care about their country, whether they're Hispanic or black or white, are taking responsibility and they are coming out,” said Isabel, who is hoping to collect votes for her candidate.

But if you ask Frumencio Reyes, he'll tell you Hispanic voters will come out mostly for Hillary Clinton.

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“We are expecting in Texas to do better in our community, the Hispanic community, than California did,” said Reyes, a Clinton campaign supporter.

On Tuesday in California, Clinton took close to 70-percent of the Latino vote.

Two weeks ago, she was endorsed by the Tejano Democrats of Texas. And her campaign says her roots here run deeper than Obama’s.

But in Texas, winning the vote will mean courting Hispanic voters.

“The younger ones in the party they are Barack supporters. And us that are a little bit older we're more leaning towards Hillary,” said Clinton activist Jane Vidales.

On that much at least, some Obama supporters agree. Younger Hispanic voters will go for Obama.

“And I think that in this city is gonna be his main strength,” said Obama supporter Ernie Carter.

Focusing on those strengths both the Clinton and Obama national campaigns are headed to Texas. They're buying ad time on English and Spanish language radio stations.

Evidence enough, the Hispanic vote matters in Texas.